Bug#460499: lintian: No need to warn about missing short-description LSB header in init.d scripts
[Russ Allbery]
> Do you think we should drop it completely or just reduce it to info?
Reducing it to info is probably good.
> I think having a description is rather nice and may help figure out
> where an init script abandoned by some previous package came from
> without having to do as much research. It still feels like a best
> practice thing even if it isn't used by software.
I agree, and this is the reason it was requested as a warning in the
first place. But as it is more important to flag that provides,
required-start, required-stop, default-start and stop is present than
short-description, I believe it is a good idea to have two levels, and
thus drop the warning for short-description.
Happy hacking,
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Petter Reinholdtsen
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